Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Procter & Gamble's Board Chairman Richard R. ("Red") Deupree: "Management today doesn't require specific skills. A successful manager has to have overall skill of management. It's something in you that wants to come out. Mac makes quick decisions. He makes 'em fast. No one can be right all of the time, but Mac is right a majority of the time. An executive has to be right just about all of the time. He is making maybe 100 decisions a day, but if he knows his business he won't have to think...
That night the government sent two motorized battalions rolling down the superhighway to Maracay, warned rebels to surrender by 1:30 a.m. At the air bases, hopes flagged fast. At 1 o'clock Major Carrillo and 16 other young officers took off for refuge in Barranquilla, Colombia, 475 miles westward; as a defiant-and unnerving-last gesture, they used Pérez Jiménez plush-job DC-4, with trusted Personal Pilot Martin Parade flying. Ironically, the attacking battalions paused part way at Los Teques and began going over to the uprising just as the airmen fled; when...
...began looking for another job, still determined, foolishly or not, never to sign the oath. "Too many people say 'Let George do it,'" he explains, "even in matters involving defense of individual freedom. Someone has to be George." But being George is not easy. "The day goes fast," says Hjalmar Andersson quietly, "when all the children are around...
Shostakovich wrote his concerto for his 19-year-old son Maxim, who is a pianist but reportedly not an outstanding one. Pop's 15-minute exercise jittered and jumped in its two fast movements, meandered sweetly and slushily in its slow movement. The work was so far from the bite and sparkle of Shostakovich's first piano concerto (1933) that no one could decide whether the five-finger exercises with which it ended were an attempt at wit or merely a concession to Maxim's halting progress. But Bernstein piled through the piece just...
Like most of Emilia's mayors, the mayor of Ruina is a Communist, but he proved to be in no hurry to tangle with the church. He found a fast face-saver: an old town ordinance stipulating that all gravestones must be approved by the city council. Since the offending stone had not been approved, the mayor ordered not merely the symbols but the stone to be taken away...